Lindt Chocolate Sale, Eastern Creek

Lindt chocolate.
On sale.
Every chocaholics dream come true.

On Wednesday I received an email advising a one-day only Lindt chocolate warehouse sale with prices up to 50% off. The ad came as a jpg via a friend of a friend, who received it from their friend and so on.

With no information on this event findable on the web, I hesitated to post about it on GrabYourFork, remaining somewhat sceptical about the ad's legitimacy. "What if it's just a joke?" I said to Veruca Salt. "What if we all turn up there and join a thousand other cheapskate chocaholics, only to discover we've just answered a deceitful cattlecall for Australian's next Biggest Loser?"

Casting doubts aside, we headed out to a warehouse in Eastern Creek early this morning. And as we approached we spotted the queue, which extended across the car park and almost to the footpath outside.



Thirty minutes was spent sunbaking in the queue under warm morning sunshine. We painfully watched shoppers who had completed their chocolate frenzy return to their cars laden down with Lindt boxes, before we finally (at last!) made it inside.



The sight before us was warehouse shopping at its simplest. Pallets of Lindt chocolate had been set up in small towers, congesting a cordoned-off area of the climate-controlled insulated warehouse.



There was plenty of bargain chocolate to be had. Bars of Lindt single origin chocolate (which I hadn't seen before) were $2. Lindt wafer bars were 2 for $1. Boxes of 140g Lindor balls and Fioretto were 3 for $10. Tubes of 6 Lindor balls were 3 for $5.



Chaos reigned at the "bag your own" Lindor ball area. Loose Lindor balls were 20c each or you could fill a cellophane bag for $15. It was a scrabble of hands and elbows and shoulders everywhere.

I grinned and bore it though. I have trained for bargain hunting. And I took my time too. Secretly I'm sure I packed that bag tighter than anyone else (compact foundation layer, periodic gentle pushes to consolidate those crinkly wrapper tails), ensuring maximum Lindor ball capacity (who says I'm not a shameless cheapskate?).

So now I'm a little bit poorer in cash, but significantly richer in chocolate. And that's a good thing, right?

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